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Farmer's Almanac Predicts NYE Storm

The popular prognosticator of weather predicts big snows for the end of 1999

As if the threat of the computer Y2K bug isn't enough to worry about, the Farmer's Almanac is predicting heavy snows for the Midwest and Northeast at the end of 1999. The popular prognosticator of weather patterns released its latest edition today. The good news is the weather will be milder after November and December.

"It's going to be cold and there will be snow on the ground, but the New Year's Eve festivities should be OK," Sondra Duncan, the almanac's managing editor tells the Associated Press.

The National Weather Service has traditionally said that the weather can't be predicted with any certainty so far in advance, but the 183-year-old Farmers' Almanac claims its weather predictions are right 80 percent of the time. The Farmers' Almanac, not to be confused with the Old Farmer's Almanac which is 24 years older, bases its weather forecast on a secret formula that involves sunspots, position of the planets and tidal action caused by the moon.

The almanac says the weather across the US "will be unusually stormy and active across much of the country" in November and December. Colorado will see four major storms between November and year's end, and might see a white Christmas according to the almanac. The Northeast will be pounded by three significant snowstorms in December, it says.

Source: Associated Press

DATE: 8/31/99

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